A Red Moon in Her Face

work by Noma

Also known as: “Kao no naka no akai tsuki”

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A Red Moon in Her Face (Kao no naka no akai tsuki) is a 1947 novel by Japanese author Noma Hiroshi. The novel explores a protagonist's internal struggle between their self-perception and their physical desires. Noma Hiroshi was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his post-World War II writings, including Zone of Emptiness. His work often reflected his interest in Marxist ideology and French Symbolist poetry, with influences from writers like James Joyce and Marcel Proust. Noma's early post-war novels, such as A Red Moon in Her Face and Dark Painting, utilized stream-of-consciousness techniques.1

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…naka no akai tsuki (1947; A Red Moon in Her Face), both of which present a protagonist’s conflict between self-image and carnal desire. The novel Kurai e combined the techniques of Symbolism and the Proletarian Literature Movement, using stream-of-consciousness prose. Shinkū chitai conveys a broad view of the Japanese wartime…
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…naka no akai tsuki (1947; A Red Moon in Her Face), both of which present a protagonist’s conflict between self-image and carnal desire. The novel Kurai e combined the techniques of Symbolism and the Proletarian Literature Movement, using stream-of-consciousness prose. Shinkū chitai conveys a broad view of the Japanese wartime…
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